JIAN’s Competitive Advantages

JIAN’s strength is our focus on the realities of our customers' situations and needs. All JIAN software has been developed and used by hands-on business professionals with successful real-world business experience. This gives each product its practical nature and emphasizes getting-the-job-done (vs. just teaching how-to-do-it).

JIAN enjoys an established track record of extraordinary support for our customers. Their expressions of satisfaction and encouragement are numerous, and we intend to continue our advances in the business marketplace with more unique and instrumental software applications, with outstanding support.

What about the free stuff elsewhere on the web?

Yes, the web is full of free alternatives to our products. Why is it free? Usually they want you to buy into something else... If that's the case, how much effort will they put into the bait that's really designed just to hook you for something else? What we sell is where most of our effort research and refinement goes. And, the free stuff just doesn’t include all of the pieces and leaves you farther from a completed project without knowing what's missing. Consider the trade-offs: Your business financing, employee lawsuits, sales increases... The free stuff doesn't do either of us any good. Hey, become an affiliate and make a few $$$ by passing the word. That's what a business black belt would do.

We may have $100-$500 at risk, but you are risking far more...

If you are comparing software, really compare it. There's a lot at stake for you. You are investing far more than just $100 - $1,000 in a few software programs — these form the foundation of your business, so it's crucial that you are comfortable with your decision to go with JIAN. There is so much to learn. So many things can go wrong. So many things can happen (many you'll want to avoid). And there are opportunities for success everywhere. Who else offers an integrated suite of business tools designed to educate you, put processes in place, represent you to others who can support you, and help you step carefully down the path to success (while you go full speed ahead!)?

• MIDAS our Multi-user Interactive Document Assembly System helps you wrangle Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from team members far-flung all over the world into a single project. (It even helps you be in more places at the same time too!) You can even use it on future document development projects of your own.
• All spreadsheet models are designed to enable even non-financial users to easily structure and articulate their financial goals. Financial Jedi, MBAs and other Excel masters enjoy a tremendous head-start with modeling systems that can easily be tweaked to your total satisfaction.
• BizPlanBuilder gives more that the bare minimum required by investors and lenders — it prepares you to "face the financing" with confidence and certainty of your prospects and your deal. Everyone can feel it. Most people like that. That's why we have so many success stories.
• Employee Manual Builder goes beyond the requirements of the HR department. While it complies with California law (the toughest in the world), we also offer many years of experience in practical employee management to assure everyone in your company is treated properly and that all supervisors/managers are better educated to do the right things. This is built-in to the text and expert comments.
• Agreement Builder adds the element of plain-English to your business contracts so you can more readily understand and edit them to make your deals work for you. We also made them "pretty" so they would appear more official and powerful on your behalf.
• Marketing Builder includes a variety of unique tools pioneered by JIAN to help you to really understand where your investment in promoting your business is going, how well it's doing, and how to better coordinate everything that needs doing. We've been using and refining these tools for ourselves for a long time with great success.
• Publicity Builder is your complete PR department in a box (a download anyway). The tutorial and tools enable anyone to become a Public Relations monster overnight... The media needs and wants your story, but you must get out of your own way to give them something they can easily use on their deadlines.
• Safety Plan Builder is far more than a simple "handbook" to pacify [Cal]OSHA. There's a training and specification on every area that your people can follow, understand and implement — since you can now prove it, they must take more responsibility for their actions and leave less of you exposed to the personal injury plaintiffs.

They Make You Smarter

JIAN products are often described as "a business education in a box". Both experienced business owners as well as novice entrepreneurs alike tell us, over and over, that our products have helped them learn how to do business better.

Instead of telling you to do something, we show you how and give you the tools to do it yourself. We provide content you can use; not a blank screen and a list of questions you can't answer. You can modify, enhance or delete copy — do whatever you need to do to suit your unique situation.

Within each of our products areas, there is new language to learn. We explain what you need to say and provide structured sentences to show you how to say it. And you don't have to have an MBA or PhD. With most of the legwork already done for you, you can breeze through projects that once seemed too big to even start.

For the financially challenged and mathematically avoidant, we provide extreme relief. The spreadsheets automatically perform all of the calculations for you — you just enter your numbers. (Many other programs do not do this, or have very limited flexibility.) It's so fast and easy, you'll wish you'd discovered us sooner.

They Make You Better

We don't rely on just one or two so-called experts. We commissioned accountants, attorneys and consultants to help us develop these products. We've synthesized the best solutions from many sources (primary specialists on the subject, plus ideas from expert authors, speakers, and successful business people) and provided them as examples—already typed and ready to customize for your business.

Also, since we've been at this for 20 years, we've responded to every customer idea, suggestion, and/or request and included as much as possible within each of our products. if they don't apply, we let you take them out — at least you got a glimpse of an idea that might prove profitable for you!

We believe that you will appreciate the blend of art and science necessary to give you just the right amount of information, in just the right format, to get the job done—without burying you in details.

Research & Development—an Ongoing Process

We use our products ourselves. That way we're the first to know how well they work. We used an early version of BizPlanBuilder to get a $210,000 SBA loan for JIAN, then we used it again to establish a $750,000 line of credit with Citibank.

Our research takes many forms. Burke Franklin was an elected delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business held in Washington, D.C., in June, 1995, where he met with entrepreneurs from across the U.S. to discuss issues every small business owner faces.

A few more good reasons to choose JIAN...

• Unconditional 60-day money-back guarantee
  If you are not satisfied with any of our products within the first 60 days from your purchase, you can obtain a no questions asked refund.
• All forms of payment
  You can pay with any major credit cards, certified check, bank wire transfer, cash, PO.
• Purchase via PayPal
  You can order our software via PayPal. Just select "PayPal" as a Payment option on the purchase page.
• Instant delivery
  All of our products can be downloaded immediately so you can get started immediately (if you pay by credit card).
• Secure order process
  The ordering process is safe and performed by a well-known e-commerce service, TrustCommerce to Bank of America, that provides secure order-processing worldwide.
• Free upgrades
  Registered users may upgrade to minor version upgrades for free and to major version upgrades at half price.
• 1 license = 3 PCs
  With one license of our products you can install and use them on three computers: on your work and home PCs, and on your laptop.
• Free support
  If you have any questions or troubles with our products, just let us know and we will provide you with a solution.